Excerpt from Treatise on the Knowledge Necessary to Amateurs in PicturesThe abridgments that have been made, have been chie¿y on those parts of the work in which it digresses into controversial matter no longer at issue, such as the comparative merits of colour and design, or the opinions of writers in regard to the Flemish school of painting. In these, the Translator has used greater freedom, both of selec tion and arrangement, but he has, at the same time, been careful to retain throughout the tone and train of thought of the Author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.